Some of the features on the Senator On-Line website require the use of "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer.

We make very limited use of cookies and do not use cookies to access data from your hard drive, to determine your e-mail address, or to view data in cookies created by other websites. Cookies only store information that a web server places in them. They cannot look at other cookies on your hard drive nor can they look at any other information on your computer. We do not use cookies to harvest information from your computer.

Senator On-Line may use cookies in the following ways:

• Session cookies - when you use our website a temporary cookie records some information related to your current browser session. It is used only to store information about that instance and is deleted when the browse session is closed. The purpose of this cookie is to help the system remember the activities you asked it to perform such as the search term, the number if hits on a page etc. They are no longer accessible after the browser session expires i.e. once it has been inactive for fifteen minutes or when the browser is closed
• Permanent, persistent or stored cookies - these are used in only a few places. They help to remember the search history feature and they remember the user across the various Emerald web sites. These cookies are stored on the user's hard drive

Please note that users do not have to have permanent cookies enabled in order to use our websites but session cookies must be enabled. All browsers allow the user to independently allow session cookies from permanent cookies.